Play Stephen Colbert's New Story Game 'Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet'

Stephen Colbert still has a couple of months to go until The Late Show With Stephen Colbert begins on September 8th 2015 on CBS. In the meantime, Stephen and his team has been keeping busy with all the plaining of the studio, the show, and other fun material for fans like; Podcasts, web videos, an App, and more.

The latest from Stephen Colbert is a new choose-your-own-adventure style story game titled, "Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet."

Stephen Colbert jokes in a 'press release' on the Late Show website:

“It’s no wonder people love Escape from the Man-Sized Cabinet so much. It’s the world’s greatest Stephen Colbert simulator… unless my whole life is some kind of elaborate Matrix-like virtual reality.” 

Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet is a text based story game with some cartoon images. The story begins with Stephen getting trapped inside a man-sided cabinet, like the title suggests. It's then up to the player to choose from different options as to what Stephen will do next and how the adventure will unfold. However, while there are different options to choose from - you'll end up picking the option the game wants you too in order to progress in the story.

All Colbert fans (and everybody else) should definitely check out the story game on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert website.

Wattpad - 20 million+ Free eBooks / Create & Share Your Own Stories - iOS & Android

Wattpad is a popular eBook sharing app, with millions of users who are enjoying over 20 million free ebooks & stories, including all genres like; sci-fi, romance, humor, teen fiction, fan fiction, action, fantasy, and more...

Wattpad is a free eBook reader. You can download from their library of millions of stories. Wattpad is also a social app: You can share, comment, chat and vote on stories.  You can connect with writers, and best of all - you can also create and share your own stories.

While not all Wattpad stories are complete - you can read the stories in the real time that the writer submits them. You'll be alerted by notifications as new chapters are added to your subscribed stories. You can then give the authors live feedback as their story progresses.

Wattpad also has classic stories like: Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, Moby Dick, Romeo & Juliet, and more...

Wattpad is easy to use - just browse the library, choose some stories you want to read - and add them to your library.  Wattpad will also work in offline mode, which is great for when you don't have a internet connection.

Wattpad is free, and available for iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android devices. 

'Redd' The iOS App Client For Reddit With The Best Visual Interface - App Review

For a while now I had been using the app client Alien Blue for Reddit, until I came across a recently gone free app for iOS (designed for iPhone & iPod Touch) called, Redd - Reddit client by Craig Merchant. Redd is actually a really great app for Reddit. A a recent update has made the app, even better.

Redd has a really nice clean interface. It looks the part for iOS 7. The app divided by tabs on the bottom of the app. There's: Hot, New, Rising, Controversial, and Top. These also work for each category you enter. The categories can been accessed from the three line "hamburger menu" on the top left corner.

The Features of Redd:

- Search and browse your favorite subreddits
- Add and reply to comments and stories

- Upvote and Downvote stories and comments

- Share stories to your favorite services

- Add your own text, link, or photo stories

- Upload single or multiple photos quickly and easily straight to imgur

- Browse photo galleries in our built in photo viewer

- Night mode

Redd, in a recent update included a really useful feature - Night mode. A dark interface, consisting mainly of blacks and grays, that helps eyes read a little better at night. This mode can work without any user interaction. Once switched on, just set daily times (i.e: 10pm - 6am), and Redd will automatically switch Night mode on for you.  

My dislikes with Redd: There are a few things that I would change. I'd add a share button. You can share things like photos that other users have uploaded, but you can't seem to share the whole posting. Not a big fan of the gray writing in the posts and comments, could be a shade darker. Adding Reddit Messages is an important feature that should be added, too. Another thing that Redd may want to add is a native iPad version. As a lot of people now do there reading on iPad's, I'm sure they'd appreciate this feature. And if I'm going to really nitpick, I'd make the logo on the app icon a bit smaller. It's not evenly boarded.

In the Settings, you can of course login with your Reddit credentials. You can switch on 'Hide NSFW Content'. And change text size.

Visually, Redd is the best app client for the Reddit website. It may not contain all the features for the pro' Reddit users, but I'd still recommend you check it out.


Redd - reddit client is currently priced at FREE, and is available to download for iOS devices (Designed for iPhone). 

Keep Calm and Download The Chive App for iPhone, iPad & Android

Here is a short, quick app review of an app I like but never got around to posting about... Today's is:

theCHIVE (app by Resignation Media, LLC)

theCHIVE Official App - (Left iPhone, Right Image Android)

- Like the website but bit cooler.

- Images are in galleries instead of a scrolling page.

- You have all the categories like the on site.

- You can save images.

-  There's Quick access buttons to: Latest, Videos, Top Rated, Shuffle, More...

- Also features "Keep Calm And Chive On" Wallpapers.

- The interface isn't the best and could use a better cleaner and more modern design.

- And there's an advertisement that's constantly on the bottom, which can get annoying, but hey it's not in the way that much...

- If you love the website, then you need this app for your iPhone or iPad, Android, better than the web experience on a tablet device.

Price: FREE

[ theCHIVE: App Store Link / Google Play Link ]